Ever once in a while you hear of a local night club or bar that is forced to close because the frequency of stabbings and rapes of patrons they are considered a public nuisance. Why are the universities not being forced to close when 25% of the females on campus will be raped according to the President. Is that why the universities intimidate victims to not report rapes to the police because they fear they'll be forced to close as a public nuisance?

What are these things called college campuses her article mentions? I'm only familiar with the "Cultures of Rape Zones" frequently spoken of in the media. I presumed anyone willingly entering one of these zones of "consequence free raping" was intentionally taking a chance with their lives and well being as a kind of thrill seeking behavior. /sarc

This whole 'rape culture' nonsense is just one more formulaic assault on freedom, liberty, and individual rights run by the left against America. Obama's at least partially right about one thing - foreign policy doesn't matter a whole lot because our most serious and dangerous enemies are right here amongst us. The war is here at home.

I like Ms. Otto's article except that she winds up sideways from a crucial point. Most of what is being called "rape" or "sexual assault" on campuses is actually mutual bad judgment and/or morning-after regrets. Forcible rapes and incapacitation rapes are actually quite rare on campuses or elsewhere.Colleges were the front lines of sexual license. It's ironic that colleges are now creating such sex-negative environments.

Who the heck is Amy Otto? That was as well reasoned a piece of analytical commentary I have read in a long time. We need to hear more from her. And to her point; if the cops aren't called, there is no rape. While that sounds harsh for the victim,it's no worse than accusing someone of sexual assault when little more than drunken groping is involved.

There is a war on women and when there is a war, what do you need - a gun. So I propose that the government offer all women free gun safety courses and gun self defense courses and be issued gun carry permits that allow them to carry on campus. That should even things out.

But....but....the little darlings are just too precious to use anything as ugly as a gun, it would surely permanently damage their fragile psyche - perhaps they can be provided with a 24/7 Security Guard?

Somebody needs to write a major article detailing how we got to this point.

After years of feminist lobbying to extend the textual definitions of rape and sexual assaults to all conceivable situations of something being wrong, they also achieved such broad definitions that much dating interaction was covered that people don't consider criminal.

Then feminists designed surveys that asked whether people experienced actions that fit the broad definitions but that people don't consider criminal -- a girl slaps a boy who looks at another girl walk by, a boy or girl wakes up in the morning and the beer goggles have worn off, a teammate slaps another player on the rear.

The feminists then trumpet that the surveys show much more actions that meet the wide definition of "sexual assault" and "rape" than actually get reported as crimes. They do not draw the logical conclusion that casual and serious dating involves a lot of physical activity that might be unwanted and or later regretted but is not considered at all criminal by the people involved.

It truly is an "Emperor has no clothes" campaign where nobody will point out the flaws in the survey that somehow "prove" that college campuses have more rape and sexual assault than a war zone.

There is absolutely, positively no amount of article writing that will counteract all of this rape culture nonsense. This nation has largely bought the hook on all of these overblown rape and sexual assault statistics due almost solely to rampant media saturation. My wife truly and honestly thought that the whole 1 in 4 sexual assaults on college campuses was correct until I semi-calmly explained to her how the math simply doesn't add up and how 'sexual assault' gets defined anymore. Why did she bite? Because some progressive feminist Muppet got on some show and said so and don't you question her assertion you misogynistic right wing tard. After that every single medial outlet of every kind runs with it. Log into Yahoo? There's some article about rape asserting some falsified rape stat. Slate? Whacked rape stats. People mag. Cosmo. Time. Websites. Newspapers. The Local Evening news. It spreads through every medium liberals have their claws in and gets repeated so often that otherwise good-natured people take it for certitude.

And when they get called out for their false rape claims they rephrase to sexual assaults. Just like the Global Warming to Climate Change about-face.

In short, we have Rape Crazy 24/7 because liberals took over the culture and conservatives abandoned it. Liberals love talking about rape because it forwards their Agenda and that Agenda is money and power.

The worst part? All of this sexual assault awareness stuff overshadows real sexual assaults and rapes and real solutions.

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